Tips on enjoying New Orleans?

The weather should probably be highs in the 60s - 70s. You can always do a look up on www.weather.com. They post the monthly high/low temperature averages.

Some activities to consider are:

1) Exploring the French Quarter, which includes checking out Jackson Square, street vendors, shops, bars, and the French Market (out door flea market type place). You can also always take a horse drawn carriage tour of the area.

2) Partying on Bourbon Street

3) Mississippi River walk and/or a Mississippi River Boat tour

4) Ride the St. Charles Street car and get off in the Garden District to check out all of the fancy houses.

5) Tour of one of the above ground cemeteries

6) Donuts at Cafe Du Monde

7) Jazz show at Preservation Hall

8) Check out the local cuisine and try pralines, they're tasty

Have a great trip!

Go to Cafe Du Monde Coffee Stand in the French Quarter! you may have to wait in line for a little bit, but I swear it is worth it. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be a line. Definitely have fun walking around the French Quarter, take time to look at the live statues, artists, and buildings. There is also the New Orleans School of Cooking, it is really really interesting to go there. They take you upstairs and show you how to cook whatever it is they have for the day and then you get to eat it and take home the recipes, it is also in the french quarter. Check out Bourbon Street for nightlife! Go to the Zoo and the Aquarium, even if you think you are too old. :) Have fun!

Wear comfortable shoes. Get a hotel close to downtown as possible. Basically to make things simple for you, everything is downtown. The casino, bars, mardi gras, clubs, shopping basically everything. You can find everything on bourbon and canal street, that I named above. Make sure you go to the cemetaries and on the ghost tours. You will love it. Have a good time, I hope I made things simple for you. Enjoy.

If you plan on walking to any of the suggested places - WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES! I cannot wrap my head around women wearing stilettos on Bourbon. My shins would be split in half in 20 minutes!

Don't carry a purse. Either put everything you need in your pocket or do what I did - make my boyfriend/husband put my ID in his wallet. The only thing I carried was a camera. Much less to worry about...much more convenient.

Other than that - NOLA guy pretty much got it all for you.

Take a swamp tour on a airboat http://www.basinlanding.com/

have a drink at the columns, go see music at Rock n bowl

http://www.rockandbowl.com/CalandarPAGE/...

go see cajun music and learn cajun dancing at tipitinas on sunday night. Also, I suggest listening to music at preservation hall this is kid friendly no alcohal is served and there is no smoking.

Take the streetcar down St. Charles Avenue

Have a drink at Lafitttes Blacksmith shop. Have a hurricane at

pat's o's and beignets at cafe du monde. Take a ride on the streetcar and/or riverboat. You can take a zoo cruise to the zoo from the aquarium.

Musuems i suggest going to the NOMA new orleans museum of art. DDAY museum- There is a new cocktail museum. Go to the zoo and/ or the aquarium. Go to Mardi Gras world if you want to see Mardi gras floats.

Ogden Museum-Southern Art

These are my favorites to go eat.

www.jacquesimoscafe.com

http://www.commanderspalace.com/new_orle...

http://www.brigtsens.com/

http://www.one-sl.com/

http://dickandjennys.com/

http://www.galatoires.com/

http://www.muriels.com/

http://www.mandinasrestaurant.com/

http://www.parasols.com/